AZ Language Services is the tradename of an Italian-Japanese married couple of professional language teachers and translators specializing in Italian, Japanese, English and French language services. Our career as language teachers and translators started in Nagoya, Japan, in 1993. In 1998 we moved to Italy, where we set up AZ Language Services.

AZ Language Services is a small, and therefore highly effective, school of Italian and Japanese.

AZ Language Services is a translation and interpreting centre, providing translation and interpretation services between English, Japanese, Italian and French.

AZ Language Services is an international library with more than 2000 books in Japanese, English, Italian, French and German.

ITALIAN LESSONS

A Welcome Message from Alberto Zaccagnini, Italian teacher,

Our main goal is to bridge the language and cultural gaps between foreigners and Italians.

During the 4 years I lived in Japan, I learned a lot about a different culture and different way of thinking.

In Japan, I experienced the problems stemming from not knowing a language, as well as the joy of understanding each other even without knowing each other’s language, just by trusting the person in front of you, reading in that person’s eyes the feelings of his heart, letting him read your heart through your eyes.

Drawing from such experiences, I would like to help all those foreigners who want to exchange their opinions and emotions with Italians directly.

In the Italian classes held at AZ Language Services, a lot of attention is paid to the peculiar problems encountered by people of each distinct national, cultural and linguistic background when studying Italian.

We are therefore the ideal solution for you who would like your unique personality and background to be acknowledged; which is difficult to obtain in big schools, where people of different nationalities, who want to learn Italian for different purposes, are all taught the same things with the same method.

Our Translation & Interpreting Services, as well as our International Library, will also help make your stay in Italy more productive, interesting, and enjoyable.

When visiting Florence, do call us. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Your Italian teacher,

Alberto Zaccagnini 

JAPANESE LESSONS

A Welcome Message from Fumiko Zaccagnini, Japanese teacher,

Our main goal is to bridge the language and cultural gaps between you and the Japanese.

I am a Japanese who has been living in Florence since 1997 with her Italian husband (Alberto Zaccagnini) and two children.

During the first two years of our married life we lived in Japan, and we spoke English to each other: but as soon as we moved to Italy, I attended a one-year Italian course focusing on Italian grammar: then I started speaking with him in his native language, and I realized that in Italian, I could at last fully understand his Italian feelings and share his Italian emotions! On his part, my husband says that only when I speak to him in Japanese does my true personality come through.

I can now see how important it is to get to know people of different nationalities in depth by speaking their native language.

Moreover, thanks to my everyday experiences of teaching Japanese to my husband, I can now see the Japanese language from a non-Japanese point of view.

Drawing from such experiences, I would like to help you to exchange your opinions & emotions with the Japanese directly.

My major at my university in Japan was English Language & Literature; I spent one year in England, attending a course in English, English literature, anthropology and religious studies at Lancaster University; and I taught English for four years at an international junior high and high school in Japan. I am therefore at ease teaching you Japanese in English.

In Italy, I have also taught Japanese and non-Japanese students the Japanese Literature and Japanese Grammar courses for the International Bacalaureat.

Our Translation & Interpreting Services, as well as our Japanese and International library, will also help make your stay in Italy more productive, interesting, and enjoyable.

When visiting Florence, do call us. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Your Japanese teacher,

Fumiko Zaccagnini

TRANSLATION & INTERPRETING